Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wobble up and down the hard-packed snow on the sidewalks and streets. There are fantasies here just as surely as in Philadelphia. They say with pride, "In school, the other kids call us 'Olympians.' " A cab driver buzzes about town with his new CB radio turned up to catch a dispatcher's grating squawk through the static. "We got this radio system new since the Olympics," he boasts. "Now tourists can call for a taxi, and we come just like in other cities." At the skating rink where Torvill and Dean once carved perfection, the jam-packed crowd...
...great future. There is, of course, considerable skepticism about whether spiritual experiences can be studied at all with any degree of success. The late Philip Toynbee, a writer and critic and son of Historian Arnold Toynbee, wrote that Hardy's quest was the equivalent of "trying to catch an angel in his butterfly...
...schools with state-of-the-art computers throughout the 1950s and 1960s was halted in 1972. Meanwhile, the governments of France, Germany, England and Japan aggressively subsidize supercomputer purchases for their leading universities. Says NSF Program Director Larry Lee: "It will take the U.S. a good two years to catch...
...successful has the 24-hour, all-Christian format been that Owner Paul Toberty is currently converting his stations in Denver and Phoenix. The South, where old-fashioned gospel music still prevails on the religous stations, has been the most resistant to evangelical pop, but the movement is beginning to catch on there...
...Marko Ramius, who seeks to defect to the U.S., bringing a billion-dollar present with him. This is Red October, a ballistic- missile-armed submarine, or "boomer," equipped with a new, silent propulsion system. In a message to his superior in Moscow, Ramius challenges the whole Soviet navy to catch him. He then takes off for Norfolk, together with a group of equally disaffected officers and an unsuspecting crew. Moscow dispatches 58 attack submarines to hunt and destroy the rogue boat before its secrets can fall into U.S. hands...